Checkbox disabled attribute in ASP.NET MVC

Question

My ViewModel has a property of selected and selectable. Both are boolean. I would like my view to have a checkbox that is enabled when selectable is true and disabled when

Answer 1

The problem is when you have to add more than 1 HTML attribute. That's a mess:

@if(item.Selected)
{ 
  @Html.CheckBoxFor(modelItem => item.Selected, new { @data_foo = "bar"})
}
else
{
    @Html.CheckBoxFor(modelItem => item.Selected, new { @data_foo = "bar", @disabled = "disabled"})
}

What I do to solve this is to use a IDictionary that is previously loaded:

var htmlAttributes = new Dictionary{
    {"data-foo", "bar"}
};
if(!item.Selected)
{
    htmlAttributes.Add("@disabled", "disabled");
}

And then I create the checkbox component only once:

@Html.CheckBoxFor(modelItem => item.Selected, htmlAttributes)